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<h2>About TagPoll</h2>
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  <h3>Simple Polling</h3>
  <p>Have you ever wanted to do a quick poll to a quick question?  Who's going to win the next big game?  What do you think <a href="http://www.apple.com/">Apple</a> will announce at the next press conference?  Which vacation spot to people prefer?  With TagPoll you can setup these polls easily!  And with integrated <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> support, getting people to take your poll has never been easier.</p>

  <h3>History</h3>
  <p>TagPoll was created during the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lastcallforio2011/app-engine">Last Call for Google I/O 2011 AppEngine Round II</a> challenge.  The idea came to light while brain storming on app ideas with fellow coworkers from <a href="http://digitalbazaar.com/">Digital Bazaar</a>. After a few quick iterations of ideas on how to get answers to quick ad-hoc polling-like questions, the idea for the yet-to-be-named TagPoll came about. After a few short hours of hacking, version 1.0 was born.</p>

  <h3>Status for Contest</h3>
  <p>Quite a challenge to come up with ideas and implement them in a day!  This project does use Task Queues for a custom id allocation system that works a bit different than the built-in id allocation functions.  However, at the time of submission the work on some other cool stuff was still underway.  Votes should be updated with the Channel API but alas, a couple serious bugs remained in that.</p>
  <p>Thanks for having this contest, otherwise this new idea might have just gone to the TODO list like so many others.  With the base in place, I hope to expand the project and add in fun stuff with visualization and analytics using Task Queues, Mappers, and maybe Pipelines.</p>

  <h3>Source</h3>
  <p><a href="https://code.google.com/p/tagpoll/">TagPoll project</a> hosted by <a href="http://code.google.com/projecthosting/">Google Project Hosting</a>.</p>
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